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After inheriting the Castle of Hohenems in Carinthia, Austria, on the death of his uncle Nicholas Ferrers, John Ferrers and his cousin Hubert Constable attempt to gain possession of a priceless collection of 127 large sculpted jewels originally belonging to Pope Alexander the Sixth. His uncle knew these jewels were concealed in the castle but had never been able to find them. The Ferrers are enmeshed in a plot by a gang of criminals headed by the brother of the uncle's secretary. 


Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the Berry books), some thrillers (the Chandos books), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.